Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature

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Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature is written by Taylor Knight and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1399529919 (ISBN 10) and 9781399529914 (ISBN 13).

Taylor Knight reveals the way in which phenomenology initiates a return to ontology construed through a dialectical relationship between being and element. Within phenomenology's return to the elemental, Merleau-Ponty's late philosophy is a key locus, opening critical paths forward into an ontology for the ecological age. With reference to his phenomenological forebears - Heidegger, Husserl, Levinas - his non-phenomenological influences - Bachelard, Schelling, Freud - and his dialogue with Greek thought - Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle - Knight shows what is authentically new in Merleau-Ponty's late ontology.